Talarian

Talarian was a provider of real-time infrastructure software. Now part of TIBCO, it was a veteran provider of message-oriented middleware.

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Talarian Corporation

Company type	Acquired by TIBCO in 2002
Industry	Computer Software
Founded	1989
Headquarters	Los Altos, CA
Key people	Tom Laffey, co-founder, Paul A. Larson, President & Chief Executive, Michael A. Morgan, Vice President Finance & Chief Financial Officer
Products	Middleware
Revenue	US $14.5M (2001)
Number of employees	100 (1997)

Talarian was a member of the Business Integration Group (BIG), the Internet Protocol Multicast Initiative (IPMI), the Securities Industry Middleware Council (SIMC), the Object Management Group (OMG), and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

SmartSockets

SmartSockets was the main product of Talarian. It is a real-time message-oriented middleware (MOM) which is scalable and fault tolerant. Its programming model is built specifically to offer high-speed interprocess communication (IPC) for multiprocessor architecture, scalability and reliability.

It supports a variety of communication paradigms including publish-subscribe, adaptive multicast, redundant connections, peer-to-peer, and RPC.

Included as part of the SmartSockets package are graphical tools for monitoring and debugging applications.

It is supported on a wide range of platforms:

Applications using SmartSockets can be developed with the following languages:

C API
C++ Class Libraries
ActiveX Components
Java Class Library

SmartSockets is now a product of TIBCO. See acquisition below.

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Customers

Talarian customers were large end-users, OEMs and systems integrators in need of solutions where real-time data flow supports high-information volumes.

List of Famous Customers:

Boeing
AT&T
Hewlett-Packard
Cisco
MTR
New York Stock Exchange
NASA's ground control station for the Hubble Space Telescope

SmartSockets

Acquisition by TIBCO

Customers

References

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